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harty Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (chiefly Counties Tipperary and Cork): shortened form of O’Harty, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAthartaigh, Ó hÁrtaigh ‘descendant of Athartach or Artach’, variants of the personal name Faghartach, which is probably a derivative of foghartach ‘noisy’.
  2. Perhaps also English, a habitational name from the Isle of Harty in Kent, named in Old English as ‘stag island’, from heorot ‘hart’, ‘stag’ + eg ‘island’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of harty Families in the US in 1920
Number of harty families
 52-101
 18-51		 1-17
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